Counselling People in the UK is being reorganized. We have moved from the office at Sackville Place, Norwich, and there is a new telephone number
0777 56 500 14
As before, if you wish to know more about our services, or to discuss an appointment, please telephone Clive* on the above number.
Or you can email
enquiries@counsellingpeople.com
*Dr Clive Perraton Mountford PhD, MBACP Accred., RCC, Cert Focusing Professional
In Canada, Counselling People have relocated to the Kamloops/North Thompson and plan to begin offering a service there within the near future.
If you are interested in an authentic, person-centered approach to counselling, in experiential focusing (or a personally configured combination of the two), please give Ava a call
250 674 3635
Or you can e-mail
perraton@counsellingpeople.com
*Ava Perraton MA, MBACP Accred., RCC, Cert Focusing Professional
We offer
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Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Personal Consultation (decisions, life choices, questions of meaning)
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Experiential Focusing
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Couples and Family Therapy
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Professional Supervision
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Employee Assistance Packages
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Face to face sessions and telephone work
All members of Counselling People
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Belong to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Practice consistently with its Ethical Framework
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Carry professional indemnity insurance
All Canadian members
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Belong to the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
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Practice consistently with its Code of Ethical Conduct
People sometimes ask...
Is it worth seeing a counsellor about this?
Not so long ago, counselling was seen as for the very rich, the self-indulgent, or the very strange. Increasingly, ‘ordinary people’ are recognising that spending time with a professional counsellor helps them through life’s challenges.
Clients sometimes wonder ‘Is this worth bothering a counsellor with?’ If ‘this’ makes life less rich, less productive than it might be, then ‘this’ is worth a counsellor’s time.
At Counselling People, we don’t specialise in ‘problems’; we specialise in our clients. Nothing is too big or small. And we do have a lot of experience working with those 'problems'.
Our many satisfied ex-clients—and the Norfolk businesses we have employee-counselling contracts with—testify that our approach works.
If you have questions, you might want to jump to Counselling in general
Who are Counselling People?
Counselling People was established in Norwich in 1998 by graduates of the counsellor training program at the University of East Anglia. Clive began seeing clients two years later and took over as the original partners moved on. He was soon joined by Ava. Today Clive and Ava remain the heart of Counselling People.
Clive has become deeply involved in counsellor training. He established a person-centered program at what is now Buckinghamshire New University and has accepted a senior lecturership at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, North Wales. There, he will set up programs to train school counsellors.
Ava works as a health and addictions counsellor for an agency in Clearwater, British Columbia, following two years counselling in Whitehorse.
Both Clive and Ava find private practice particularly rewarding. Both offer an authentic person-centred therapy allied to an understanding of 'process' grounded in experiential focussing.
For more about focusing, check out www.focusing.org
For more about how we work, you may wish to jump to The kind of counselling we offer, read Clive Reflects, or explore some of his Articles
For more about Ava or Clive, try Ava's Page or Clive Road
How much does it cost?
Each client’s circumstances are unique. We seek to negotiate an hourly rate which is affordable for our clients and enables us to stay in business. That means we look to the "going rate" in the area where we are working, take into account our current overheads, and then ask what the client can afford.
We do not work to a standard "counselling hour"*. Instead, we work with each client to determine the length and frequency of sessions that best suits them. We then charge for the time actually spent.
In other words, we cannot answer this question without some discussion.
*Clive has written a number of articles about session length. The most recent is One size won't fit all
If you still have questions about cost, they may be answered in Time and money
For more information, please check out the site links, or call, or email.
February 2010 copyright Clive Perraton Mountford